Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'Could barges stacked with containers and spotted in San Francisco and Portland, ME waterways be the Google floating data center projects? Or is it another practical joke from the Googlers? Data Center Knowledge examines the mystery.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 1, 2013
'By Bob Gourley On Wednesday November 6th at 1pm EST Platfora is hosting a webinar providing details of the new Platfora Big Data Analytics platform. This webinar will be conducted by Peter Schlampp, Platfora’s Vice President of Products. I just saw Peter walk through these capabilities at Hadoop World last week and most strongly recommend this presentation to anyone in the federal space seeking to empower analysts with more rapid access to data.
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CIO Musings
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'I have always been fascinated by phones. My dad worked for the phone company, so some of my earliest memories are of him going to work with his tool belt and tester set hanging from it. Needle nose pliers, punch down tools and four conductor low voltage cable were staples in my house. Fast forward 40 years, and I am still fascinated by phones. Smartphones to be exact.
Fountainhead
OCTOBER 29, 2013
'Earlier in March I penned a blog titled A Tale of Two Cloud Strategies and observed the two opposing cloud strategies of VMware vs. AWS. VMware, with its strength in the enterprise, building presence in the public cloud -- and AWS with de facto dominance in the public cloud, working inroads into the enterprise. In my closing paragraph I noted These will be extraordinary strategies to observe over time.
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Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'In a move that will dramatically expand its presence in the U.S. data center market, Japan''s NTT Communications will acquire an 80 percent equity interest in RagingWire Data Centers for $350 million, the companies said today.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 1, 2013
'By Bob Gourley GSA quietly issued a press release that documents some very virtuous activity. They continue to make progress on the very hard task of data center consolidation and are helping save money, enhance agility and improve support to citizens while doing so. Thanks GSA, keep up the good work. From the press release : GSA Closes Data Centers and Streamlines IT Organization to Boost Cost Savings, Improve Services.
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The Accidental Successful CIO
OCTOBER 30, 2013
'Sometimes you just have to destroy everything to rebuild it Image Credit. Sometimes you just have to change everything. When you get the CIO job great things are going to be expected of you. Everyone understands the importance of information technology and so they are going to be looking at you with the assumption that you have all of the answers. Of course you don’t, but you can’t tell them that.
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 27, 2013
'A service outage at a Verizon Terremark data center caused downtime Sunday for HealthCare.gov, the trouble-plagued online insurance marketplace created by the Affordable Care Act.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 1, 2013
'By ChrisScott The Department of Defense (DoD) is still in business and will continue to provide the outstanding defense that Americans expect and deserve. As the DoD budget continues to decline, we can expect extra scrutiny on each and every funded program. This means if you are a supplier to DoD you better get ready now for increased scrutiny. Whether you supply people/services, weapons systems, platforms or IT hardware/software, you need to ensure you can show the government they are getting
Trends in the Living Networks
OCTOBER 30, 2013
'Today I was interviewed on ABC Radio National’s ByDesign program on how our expectations of beauty are increasing. You can listen to the interview here. At one point the conversation shifted to how companies could generate the innovation that will meet the soaring expectations of users. Notably through the work of MIT’s Eric von Hippel , companies have grown to recognize the critical importance of co-creation in innovation, and in particular the role of ‘lead users’ Lead
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Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
Eric D. Brown
OCTOBER 27, 2013
'Oh I See (CIO Inverted): Integrated Best of Breed. Quote : Predictions about the demise of the larger solutions have been around for a while now; I do not believe that they are going away in a hurry, rather many have adapted to the new situation quite well. The momentum from new and micro solutions will keep everyone on their toes. Acquisitions will continue to change the landscape and the CIO will have to continuously adapt.
Data Center Knowledge
NOVEMBER 1, 2013
'That mysterious "Google Barge" in the San Francisco Bay? It''s apparently not a water-based data center, but a Google Glass promotion featuring high-tech showrooms and a "party deck.".
CTOvision
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'By Bob Gourley DISA, the Defense Information Systems Agency, manages the core infrastructure that keeps the Department of Defense (DoD) IT backbone alive. The sunk cost of this infrastructure gives the DoD reliable and secure data transport, internal computer services and private cloud computing capabilities. These guys know data centers well. They are on a path to consolidate data centers where they can, and no doubt are also looking to modernize and enhance their data center architecture when
Mick's IT Blog
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'This error is caused by registry key permissions. The first thing I did was to go in and change the permissioning to everyone on the key(s) it was not able to write to. This did no good. To get right to the solution after much more troubleshooting, I ended up deleting the Key and subkeys under the CLSID. This was the only way I was able to resolve the issue.
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All Things Distributed
OCTOBER 30, 2013
'Speed of development, scalability, and simplicity of management are among the critical needs of mobile developers. With the proliferation of mobile devices and users, and small agile teams that are tasked with building successful mobile apps that can grow from 100 users to 1 million users in a few days, scalability of the underlying infrastructure and simplicity of management are more important than ever.
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 26, 2013
'The Week in Review: A closer look at expanding infrastructure at Dropbox and Wikipedia, M&A action shifts to smaller markets, why complex systems like Healthcare.gov fail.
Scott Lowe
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'In this post, I’ll share my thoughts on the Timbuk2 Commute messenger bag. It was about two months ago that I tweeted that I bought a new bag: @scott_lowe : I picked up a new @timbuk2 messenger bag yesterday. Looking forward to seeing how well it works on my next business trip. The bag I ended up purchasing was the Timbuk2 Commute in black. Since I bought it in early September (just after returning from San Francisco for VMworld), I’ve traveled with it to various points in the US, t
A Screw's Loose
OCTOBER 29, 2013
'I’m sitting outside in a park on a Sunday afternoon in NYC. It’s quite a beautiful day and more than a few folks are here soaking up the sun and atmosphere. I, like a few others, am soaking up the full WiFi that is available here contemplating some of the discussions I have had with [.
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Virtualized Greek
OCTOBER 30, 2013
'I don’t believe VMware’s NSX or network virtualization for that matter is the innovation being brought by the release of the product. One of the advantages to VMware releases NSX is that we get to see the true value of network virtualization via the hands of end users. Like most new technologies that progress from whiteboard to production, we really never know the true use of the technology until it’s put in the end user’s hands.
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 30, 2013
'Can more hardware solve the problems plaguing HealthCare.gov? The troubled web site was taken offline Tuesday night after the Obama administration asked service provider Verizon Terremark to beef up the infrastructure supporting the site.
Scott Lowe
NOVEMBER 1, 2013
'Welcome to part 7 of the Learning NVP blog series, in which I will discuss transitioning from a focus on NVP to looking at NSX. If you’re just now joining me for this series, here’s what’s transpired thus far: In part 1, I provided a high-level overview of NVP and its core components. In part 2, I showed you how to build NVP controllers and configure them into a controller cluster.
Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
OCTOBER 27, 2013
'[Note: This post was made possible by an idea hatched by my friend and colleague Nancy Settle-Murphy when we worked together on a recent post about the 2013 Red Sox "Road to Redemption." NSM provided editorial insight on this post as well, and provides a ton of insight about how people and organizations work together at guidedinsights.com.]. By day, I''ve been (as usual) thinking about SharePoint and other collaboration technologies, and how businesses solve problems and create value by effe
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Virtualized Greek
NOVEMBER 1, 2013
'Both Cisco and VMware have bet big on SDN as the future of the multi-billion dollar network industry. VMware bet big on the purchase of Nicira and released their NSX product network virtualization solution as a way forward away from hardware first solutions such as typical Cisco product. Cisco in kind has answered back with their bet on their “spin-in” Insieme Network.
Data Center Knowledge
NOVEMBER 1, 2013
'Cloud security, compliance, and the certificates that help support the cloud have all come a long way. It''s important to now see how this impacts your environment.
Scott Lowe
OCTOBER 30, 2013
'Recently a couple of open source software (OSS)-related announcements have passed through my Inbox, so I thought I’d make brief mention of them here on the site. Mirantis OpenStack. Last week Mirantis announced the general availability of Mirantis OpenStack , its own commercially-supported OpenStack distribution. Mirantis joins a number of other vendors also offering OpenStack distributions, though Mirantis claims to be different on the basis that its OpenStack distribution is not tied to
Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
OCTOBER 30, 2013
'There is an old saying in golf that every golf bet is won or lost on the first tee. For those of you who are non-golfers, non-bettors, or both, the first tee is where golfers'' handicaps are discussed/negotiated and where they establish the number of strokes the better players will "give" the other players to even up the match. . The specifics of golf handicapping are somewhat beyond me (kind of like quantum physics or Microsoft software licensing, in that "necessarily complex" category), but
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Future of CIO
NOVEMBER 1, 2013
Information is Life Blood in Modern Organization. Information is lifeblood in modern businesses today, however, from industry survey; a very real gap exists with just over one-third of respondents having an enterprise-wide information management strategy in place currently. What’s holding these organizations back from building out an enterprise-wide information management strategy?
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'GreenQloud has selected Digital Fortress for its 100% renewable energy-powered cloud in the U.S. The company is committed to using only renewable energy for its cloud offerings.
Scott Lowe
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'Welcome to part 6 of the Learning NVP blog series. In this part, I’m going to show you how to add an NVP gateway appliance to your NVP environment. In future posts, you’ll use this NVP gateway to host either L2 or L3 gateway services (more on those in a moment). First, though, let’s take a quick recap of what’s transpired so far: In part 1, I provided a high-level overview of NVP and its core components.
Virtualized Greek
OCTOBER 30, 2013
'Reblogged from Gigaom: The adoption of Software Defined Networking (SDN) may not have progressed as rapidly as some may have thought, with less than 10 percent of enterprises running significant production traffic through virtualized networks. While there’s no denying the business benefit of the technology, many hesitate to implement. What are the obstacles and how will the eventual move to SDN redefine the role of performance management applications for the enterprise and service providers?
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